Bizarre Vacations

Have you ever dreamed about going somewhere and then discovered the reality of getting there was more than you’d expected? This may not come as a surprise, but that’s happened to me more than once. The problem with having a bold, adventurous nature is you reach the point where you think you can go anywhere and do anything.

Making my way to the bottom of Copper Canyon, Mexico, to see an old Spanish church was one of those trips.

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Thirty years ago the road to Batopilas, Mexico, was a real life rollercoaster gone off the rails. Nestled at the bottom of Copper Canyon and framed by the Sierra Madre Mountains, Batopilas began in 1708, as a remote silver mining village. Complete with legendary silver barons, lost Jesuit gold mines, bandits, Indian revolts, the secluded Tarahumaras and a serial killer priest… I had to go.

Ten heart-stopping hours later, including a side trip to convince a woman to come back from the dead, we arrived.

Brenda’s Blog has been awarded one of the Top 10 Blogs for Women Over 50.

Brenda Coffee was a Journalist/Filmmaker and Board Member & Managing Consultant to a public company sold to Big Pharma. Her former BreastCancerSisterhood.com was repeatedly voted a Top Breast Cancer Blog. USAToday called her the Carrie Bradshaw of breast cancer and compared her dry, sassy wit to Erma Bombeck.

Brenda speaks at business and health conferences, the Texas Conference for Women and the Influencers at Midlife Summit. Yahoo asked her to speak about women over 45 to a Fortune 100, invitation only audience at Internet Week in NYC. She’s featured in numerous magazines; the book, Woman’s Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life and Love After 50, by Lois Joy Johnson, Founding Beauty Editor of MORE magazine and was in a commercial for BOOM, by Cindy Joseph.